Bugenhagen, Robert D. (2002). The syntax of semantic primes in Mangaaba-Mbula. In Cliff Goddard, & Anna Wierzbicka (Eds.), Meaning and universal grammar: Theory and empirical findings. Vol. II (pp. 1-64). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/slcs.61.06bug

The present chapter describes the syntax of the proposed NSM semantic primes in Mangaaba-Mbula, an Austronesian language spoken on Umboi Island in the Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea by around 3500 people.